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    | Cathedral in the title of Victor Hugo's novel about Quasimodo | Notre Dame 
 
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    | In May 1486, he was received by Queen Isabella, to whom he explained his plan to sail west to Asia | Christopher Columbus 
 
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    | Varieties of this citrus fruit include the blood, Jaffa & Valencia | orange 
 
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    | 12 years after "Diamonds Are Forever", he was back as Bond in 1983's "Never Say Never Again" | Sean Connery 
 
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    | America's first of these opened in 1652 to make coins for the Massachusetts Bay colony | mint 
 
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    | Tosca leaps to her death from the parapet of the Castel Sant'Angelo in this Italian capital | Rome 
 
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    | A house in the title of an 1851 Nathaniel Hawthorne novel featured 7 of these structures | gables 
 
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    | In 1830 this country declared itself independent from the Netherlands with Brussels as its capital | Belgium 
 
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    | The Jose Cuervo brand of this liquor dates back to 1758 | tequila 
 
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    | This author used some of his plots for a proposed late '50s Bond TV series in his book "For Your Eyes Only" | Ian Fleming 
 
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    | A fin is slang for this bill | (Sam: What is a fiver?) 
 $5
 
 
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    | The hero of "Fra Gherardo" is charged with heresy & executed this way, like Joan of Arc | burned at the stake 
 
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    | In an H.G. Wells novel, a man uses this title object to spend 8 days in the future | the time machine 
 
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    | Thomas Paine's "The Rights of Man" is a defense of this European country's 1789 revolution | France 
 
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    | This rather large steak contains both the T-bone & part of the tenderloin | (Sam: What is a New York?) 
 Porterhouse
 
 
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    | 1 of the 2 women in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" who were also TV "Avenger"s | (1 of) Diana Rigg & Joanna Lumley 
 
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    | In 1971 President Nixon ended the convertibility of U.S. currency into this metal | (Alex: Obviously, we've found your category!) 
 gold
 
 
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    | In a Bizet opera, this fickle femme fatale is stabbed outside a bull ring, & that's no bull | Carmen 
 
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    | Whitney Otto's "How to Make an American" one of these includes sewing tips | Quilt 
 
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    | In order to kill this "Mad Monk", Russian conservatives had to poison, shoot & drown him | Rasputin 
 
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    | In 1992 Coors introduced zomething new & different, this clear malt beverage | (Carey: What is Ice?) (Ben: What is light beer?)
 
 Zima
 
 
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    | 1 of the 3 villains to have their name in a film title | (1 of 3) Dr. No, Goldfinger or Octopussy 
 
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    | Some banks now have ALMs to let you get one of these for a car 24 hours a day | loan 
 
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    | Distraught that Lt. Pinkerton abandoned her, this Puccini heroine commits hara-kiri | Madame Butterfly 
 
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    | According to the title of an E.M. Forster novel, Lucy Honeychurch wants this from a hotel in Italy | A Room with a View 
 
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    | In 1939 Poland was divided almost equally between Germany & this country | Soviet Union 
 
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    | Indonesia is famous for this variety of coffee that's often blended with mocha | Java 
 
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    | In his first appearance as Bond in "Live and Let Die", he took on Mr. Big | Roger Moore 
 
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    | When he left Disney after just over a year as president, his severance was reportedly over $50 million | (Ben: Who is Jeffrey Katzenberg?) ...
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 Michael Ovitz
 
 
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    | In a Donizetti opera, this vengeful female Borgia treats a roomful of dinner guests to poisoned wine | Lucrezia Borgia 
 
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